LAS VEGAS, Nev., March 15 - Southern Utah's women's
tennis team dipped to 3-3 on the young season Sunday evening after falling to
Long Island University, 6-1. LIU, which swept the doubles matches and won five
of six singles matches, improved to 3-1 with the win.
LIU's Selma Babic and Aleksandra Pavlovic teamed
to stop SUU's Ksusha Nazarova and Olga Tatarchenko, 8-3, at first doubles while
Linn Sjogren and Taysha Blessington got past Kirrily Burden and Carmen Blanco,
8-4, at No. 2. Kristi Latteier and Mandie Divino also fell by an 8-4 count to
LIU's Dara Lahens and Stephanie Elie at No. 3.
Latteier picked up SUU's only point of the day
with a 6-3, 6-4 win over Lahens at fifth singles. Babic got past Nazarova 6-3,
6-2 at No. 1, while Sjogren stopped Tatarchenko, 6-3, 6-2, at No. 2. At No. 3
singles Pavlovic defeated Burden 6-4, 6-2, while at No. 4 it was Blessington
downing Blanco by a 6-4, 6-3 count. LIU's H'Ann Johnson claimed the final point
with a 6-1, 6-1 win over Divino at sixth singles.
Women's Tennis Result
Long Island 6, Southern Utah 1
At Bally's, Las Vegas
March 14, 2010
Singles
1 Selma
Babic, LIU def Ksusha Nazarova, SUU 6-3 6-2
2 Linn
Sjogren, LIU def Olga Tatarchenko, SUU 6-3 6-2
3 Aleksandra
Pavlovic, LIU def Kirrily Burden, SUU 6-4 6-2
4 Taysha
Blessington, LIU def Carmen Blanco, SUU 6-4 6-3
5 Kristi
Latteier, SUU def Dara Lahens, LIU 6-3 6-4
6 H'Ann
Johnson, LIU def Mandie Divino, SUU 6-1 6-1
Doubles
1 Babic/Pavlovic,
LIU def Nazarova/Tatarchenko, SUU 8-3
2 Sjogren/Blessington,
LIU def Burden/Blanco, SUU 8-4
3 Lahens/Stephanie
Elie, LIU def Latteier/Divino, SUU 8-4